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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Harvard School for Boys students gather for lunch at the Chalmers Hall sandwich bar in the 1970s.

The Times They Are A-Changin’

Harvard School for Boys alumni discuss the school’s departure from tradition and its adoption of a forward-looking perspective in the 1970s.
Tali Gurule, Features Reporter
November 12, 2025

As the 1968-1969 school year comes to a close, the students of Harvard School for Boys descend on their campus off Coldwater Canyon. It is time for the school’s annual Harvard Day festivities, complete...

Harvard School cadets pose with rifles during the 1923-1924 school year.

War Games: New Marching Orders

Alumni reflect on Harvard School’s military past and the administration’s Vietnam War era decision to remove the Junior ROTC curriculum and affiliation.
Zoe Goor
September 21, 2023

On a sun-drenched morning at the end of the 1960s, as war raged across the Pacific and Beatlemania spread stateside, the Studio City fire department received an unusual call. There had been a brush fire...

A globe to represent the need to learn about multicultural issues.

Bring awareness to global issues

Hannah Shahidi, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
February 10, 2023

The smell of traditional Persian stews fills the air as I sit down for my daily family dinner. Normally, when I sit down to eat, my parents and I exchange small talk and catch up with each other about...

New to Normal: Spotlight on Dr. Sheehy

New to Normal: Spotlight on Dr. Sheehy

Dr. Sheehy and Dr. Stewart spent their first year at the school teaching through Zoom. Now, they reflect on the return to teaching in the classroom.
Fallon Dern
November 20, 2021

   Following a nine year break from teaching and a yearlong substitution teaching history at the Marlborough School, Dr. Peter Sheehy joined the History Department in 2020. Sheehy led his first Advanced...

Peter Sheehy joins History Department

Natalie Cosgrove
August 28, 2020

Peter Sheehy (Will '22, Tate '24) joined the history department this year to teach Advanced Placement United States History and Advanced Placement Government. Sheehy holds a bachelor’s degree in history...

Credit: Lauren Nehorai and Joanna Im/Chronicle

Mapping Representation

Tammer Bagdasarian
October 2, 2019

Last year, Mimi Offor ’21 read hundreds of textbook pages, spent hours upon hours studying for exams and burned through more than a few packs of pencils during her history course, The World and Europe...

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